Houston is also invading Texas with LNG export projects and their pipelines,
five of them at the mouth of the Rio Grande next to
spring break resort South Padre Island.
Help stop those, and help stop all LNG export boondoggles everywhere.

Anything you can do to help
alert the Kingsville & Raymondville
folks would be greatly appreciated. We’ve got Brownsville pretty
much covered. On 04-13-2015 we had 64 at a public presentation on
South Padre Island. On 04-19-2015, we had a good 100+ at a
demonstration on the island. We pretty much dominated the Annova &
Texas Brownsville Open Houses with 20+ demonstrators outside and a
bunch of us inside.

Three of those LNG export operations (Gulf Coast LNG, Annova LNG, Texas LNG) are on
FERC’s map of potential LNG export projects,
but the other two (Next Decade LNG and Rio Grande LNG) are not.
As usual, we can’t depend on FERC to tell us what’s going on.
And several of these boondoggles already submitted applications
to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE);
something FERC never seems to mention.

Last December, the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club issued a
12-page report stating the LNG terminals at the Port of Brownsville
could bring “industrial pollution, the risk of disaster, and
habitat destruction to the Rio Grande Valley.” The report was
titled “The Environmental Impacts of Liquefied Natural Gas on
the Rio Grande Valley.” Since then, the group has warned that
LNG facilities at the Port of Brownsville could hurt tourism on
South Padre Island.

Most of these LNG operations seem to be owned by Houston-based companies,
but that doesn’t make it any less of an invasion of local lands
and environment.

Five companies have submitted applications to the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) for four proposed LNG projects at the Port of
Brownsville: Gulf Coast LNG Export, EOS LNG, Barca LNG, Annova LNG,
and Texas LNG LLC. EOS and Barca are working on a joint project.

Campirano said that a fifth project, being proposed by Next Decade
LNG, is pending submittal of an application to the DOE.

DOE records show that Gulf Coast, EOS and Barca have won approval to
export domestically produced LNG to Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
countries. Their applications to export to non-free trade agreement
countries are still under review. Annova and Texas LNG await the
DOE’s approval on their respective applications. The U.S. currently
has free trade agreements in force with 20 countries.

All five are yet more reasons to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
and TAFTA.

Meanwhile, BEDC is also betting on
SpaceX’s spaceport.
BEDC’s 4 August 2015 PR,
SpaceX To Build Launch Site at Boca Chica Beach,
says
500 jobs are expected from SpaceX.
In this
space.com video
hear
BEDC Executive Vice President Gilberto Salinas
say he expects 600 direct jobs and 400 indirect jobs.
Maybe Brownsville needs to decide whether to bet on the past
of LNG, which won’t produce anywhere near that many jobs,
or the future of SpaceX.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is also CEO of
Tesla, the company that just released a home-sized battery
lots of people can afford, spreading the benefits of solar power
over the day into the night, plus solar is already faster, cheaper,
and far safer than fracked methane.
Maybe Brownsville should forget the fossil-fuel past
and bet on the future of solar power which is already here now,
before south Texas gets stuck with huge empty boondoggle port projects.